Mr Newman said he respected Indonesia’s justice system and its decision to convict Corby.

“I just think we need to recognise there was a trial in Indonesia, she was appropriately convicted, she went to jail and now it appears she’s benefiting from this act and I don’t think it’s very satisfactory.

“So we will look and see whether that Queensland legislation has any application.’’

His comments come after Channel Seven personalities and senior government figures voiced their opposition to the television network’s decision to pay Corby $2 million to tell her story.

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Seven star David Koch are among those who have expressed their distaste over Corby’s possible windfall.

The growing anger comes as details of the convicted drug smuggler’s parole conditions have emerged.

Corby’s parole conditions were laid down and originally signed in August last year.

In that letter, obtained by News Corp Australia, Corby made a series of pledges including to not commit any criminal acts, to not use or distribute any kind of narcotics and to report to the parole authority every month.

Corby also agreed to receive guidance from the parole team and to dress modestly and neatly for the officers.

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On Tuesday, at the parole office, Corby signed another document, pledging to abide by the parole conditions.

It said: “This time, I am serving parole, so I declare that I am able to report and will not commit crime anymore.

If I don’t obey to the provision that is obliged, I am ready if my parole is revoked to serving my sentence at the jail.

That statement is made honestly to be used.”

Corby signed the document, which had a signature stamp at the bottom.

Taking into account ratings for rival Nine’s Schapelle telemovie and the Schapelle: Finally Free documentary, Seven’s interview gamble may well not pay off.

Industry insiders suggests Seven would likely charge $100,000 for a 30-second spot during the interview, double its usual rate, but advertisers may be wary of waning public interest in the convicted drug smuggler.

Nine’s Schapelle telemovie averaged an ordinary 1.022 million viewers across Australia’s five capital cities on Sunday — only half the whopping 1.974 million for Seven’s INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.

News_Image_File: Luxury ... Schapelle Corby is currently staying at the Sentosa Seminyak resort. Monday’s Schapelle — Finally Free documentary did even worse with a poor 627,000 viewers nationally, and the repeat of the Schapelle telemovie attracted just 241,000 straight after.

Sunrise host David Koch made his feelings clear on Sunrise on Tuesday.

“I reckon we should have nothing to do with her as a network,” he said on air.

“I totally disagree with paying a convicted drug smuggler $2 million. I know Indonesia is corrupt and all that sort of stuff, but she is convicted.”

Later he referred again to the controversial payment in a call-out to viewers to enter the show’s cash giveaway competition.

News_Image_File: Interview controversy ... Sunrise host David Koch says he disagrees with paying a convicted drug smuggler $2 million.“How would you like to win some Mega Cool cash without spending time in an overseas jail?,” he said during the segment.

“It sends all the wrong messages on drugs for a convicted trafficker to be paid for her story,” Mr Hockey said on Twitter.

And fellow Seven personalities supported Koch’s stance, with radio host and Sunrise regular Jason Morrison tweeting “Good on @kochie_online 7 network should not be paying #SchapelleCorby Well done for speaking up.”

News_Image_File: No deal ... Mercedes Corby has released a statement denying the family had been paid $2 million for the interview. Picture: Bradley Hunter

Mercedes Corby released a statement denying the family had been paid $2 million for the interview.

“If Schapelle feels that she wants to tell story to the Australian public, she will do it with someone she trusts. It was never a matter of going with the highest bidder,” Mercedes said.

“This choice was made easier with Channel Nine broadcasting a film based on a book Sins of the Father which is full of false allegations and which we are taking defamation action against.”

Seven sports reporter Jim Wilson also weighed in on Twitter, criticising Corby’s cloak and dagger exit from jail writing “The whole scarf over the head was ridiculous yesterday, walk out give a statement and then go and do your sit down tell all, done!”

He later defended the network when his Twitter followers pointed out the extreme secrecy was to protect his own employer’s exclusive, describing the bidding war as “the way of the world”.

“Not talking right and wrong all I’m saying is take your scarf off & give a short statement then do the tell all, end of story,” he replied to one critic.

It is believed the Seven deal was stitched up in such secrecy, even the network’s own reporters on the ground in Bali were in the dark it, with journalist Robert Ovadia reportedly as taken aback as the rest of the media pack when word filtered through.

Seven management would only offer a “polite decline on that one” when asked to comment on Koch’s outburst.

News_Image_File: Statement ... Indonesia’s anti-drugs movement, Granat, says it “deplores” the fact that Schapelle Corby has been released on parole. Picture: Bradley Hunter

In Indonesia, criticism continues about Corby’s release and news that she will make a small fortune from the tell-all media interview.

And her parole officers have warned that any media interview conducted without their permission would be a disciplinary matter. They say that she should have asked them first and co-ordinated the interview with them.

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The parole authority called Corby’s brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha on Monday night to discuss this and to find out where Corby was staying, after hearing from the media that she was holed up in a luxury Seminyak villa with a TV crew.

Indonesia’s anti-drugs movement, Granat, says it “deplores” the fact that Corby has been released on parole and that it is contrary to the country’s stated opposition to drugs.

Granat have long campaigned against Corby, at her original trial and later when the Indonesian President granted her a five-year clemency.

One former politician, in a Tweet, described Corby as “Queen Corby and questioned what happened behind the scenes in order for her to be given such “generosity”.

The former head of Indonesia’s Democratic Party, Anas Urbaningrum, who has now been arrested on corruption charges, tweeted: “Queen Corby is ready to get generosity. What happen behind this thing? “Is the queen Corby like “a bid that is almost impossible to be rejected.”

Last week a group of parliamentarians signed a petition to the President, arguing against Corby’s parole, pointing out that the Indonesian Government has long had a policy of drug eradication.

Letting drug traffickers out of jail early was contrary to this policy, the petition said.

Henry Yosodiningrat, from the Indonesian anti-drugs movement Granat, was outraged that Corby was staying in a luxury villa — and not the home on her parole papers — and reportedly doing a paid media interview.

“She has violated the rule as she is not staying at the house where she should live. I demand the government to revoke her parole,” Mr Yosodiningrat said.

“What Corby has done has already hurt Indonesian people. After release, a drug smuggler lives in a luxury villa and makes money from exclusive interview with a television station. It is obviously hurting Indonesian people.”

Media buyer Steve Allen estimates Seven would be charging twice the normal rate for its special edition of Sunday Night with a Schapelle Corby interview — ie at least $100,000 for an advertising spot — and there would be plenty of companies willing to pay it.

“There would only be a very limited number of companies that would baulk at advertising (during Schapelle interview),” Mr Allen says.

“If this (advertising in a show that involved convicted criminals) was an issue no-one would have advertised in Underbelly.

“We give a lot of credence to Mike Willesee. If anyone is going to get close to the truth it will be him.

“We think this will produce big ratings. If you were an advertiser trying to steal a march on your competitors at twice the normal price you’d buy it.

“They (potential advertisers) will be looking at ratings.”

Media analyst Nathan Cook also said Seven was unlikely to face an advertiser backlash, despite public sentiment turning against the Corbys.

“I am sure there would be clients with some sensitivity to going (advertising) into the show but at the end of the day, even if Seven had to go ad-free, I am sure they would have paid the money,” he said.

“They (Seven) are not paying the money (for the interview) to get immediate advertising revenue. It is more about kudos, getting commercial share and being able to cross-promote their shows for the rest of the week.”